Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named this year's winner of the prestigious Academy of American Poets Award for "distinguished poetic achievement," the Faustian-bearded poet had mellowed somewhat on his stand: "I was and still am very surprised and moved. This changes a lot of things. If I feel well, if the weather is good and the circumstances are favorable, I think I will make a trip to the U.S. some time after October...
Even serious baseball men have tak en to blaming it all on the weather. "The flags have been blowing inwards here at Cleveland Stadium," moans the Indians' President Gabe Paul. "And it's the same in other ball parks. When the pitcher has the breeze at his back, he figures he doesn't have to hold back, and he doesn't walk so many men." There are the old arguments about light and dark ("too many night games"; "too many day games") that seem to cancel each other out, and the usual deprecation of younger-generation...
...hold up the weather...
They are now widely used to check on the consumer's buying habits (the average supermarket shopper spends $13.10 on 22 items each time she enters the store), are pressed into service by oil companies to locate likely areas to drill, and can tell the Navy weather conditions surrounding almost any ship on the ocean. Stanford is using a Burroughs model to try to establish a scientific basis for foreign policy by measuring international tensions and the reactions of world leaders to current events. Georgia Tech assigns football seats for old grads strictly on a computer's reading...
...main ingredient of this formula is the rescue: one of the kids gets into some dire difficulty and is saved by the prospective groom. When Uncle Red Buttons brings over a lot of surplus weather balloons and rigs up a harness so the boys can try gravity-free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance...